Example sentences of "they would give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd be sorry for me , they 'd give me whisky and aspirins and send me to a psychiatrist . |
| 2 | Well , it began with just when I got me money each week , 'cos I had a job , a weekend job with me uncle and I 'd get me money and I 'd just go out and score , get a coupla bags or something and then me mates 'd come round here and say , ‘ Can I do a smoke in here ? ’ , y'know , and so they would and they 'd give me a smoke for coming in here and eventually it started getting , like , from weeks , from weekends to days , becoming every day , like . |
| 3 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
| 4 | The way it worked was they 'd give him 70 quid for a gram and they 'd sell it in fiver or tenner bags . |
| 5 | instead of saying , telling the er insurance people that they 'd give them the bills and they could pay them as they came in , he said they 'd got a lump sum . |
| 6 | Well they 'd give them to her too . |
| 7 | But the plan is a good one , and it would work , if only they 'd give it a chance . ’ |
| 8 | Benn said : ‘ I thought they 'd give it to him or a draw or some rubbish like that . |
| 9 | I 'm the only applicant and if it 's a choice between me and nobody , they 'd give it to nobody . |
| 10 | She says in Belgium they 'd give it scraps that people did n't want . ’ |
| 11 | Shabby streets scattered with litter , full of houses where they 'd give you a bed and a bowl of cereal for a fiver , no questions asked . |
| 12 | They 'd give you two and a half sacks as a quota for every day and if you did n't manage it , they did n't pay you anything . |
| 13 | They 'd give you low-paying-jobs , reduce your salary or simply dismiss you with no reasons given . |
| 14 | A lot of them were slow , and did n't know what they were doing half the time : they 'd give you the wrong medicine . |
| 15 | And , and whenever they knew you 've come would you , would you walk through and , and they used to for us every time an tha and that in those days they 'd give you a couple of bob which is , it was a fortune to me at that age . |
| 16 | Then they 'd give you order for next morning when , when meat got more freer , you know , when there was more of it , after the war had got over . |
| 17 | They 'd give you one for twenty odd thousand , where you gon na get a house for twenty odd thousand ? |
| 18 | If you do n't learn , at school they 'd give you detention and lines and punish you for not doing it , if you do n't do it at college it 'll be your mistake and your fault |
| 19 | do n't know whether they 'd give you one , huh accordingly to that woman |
| 20 | So we left there that Wednesday morning and they said they 'd give us until the Friday to think about it . |
| 21 | Whenever we spoke about haircuts or what clothes they 'd give us to go home in , Anderson would say , ‘ I do n't care what I look like , I 'll go out stark naked , I just want to leave . ’ |
| 22 | When Madeleine did not reply , he continued eagerly , ‘ They 'd give us m-married quarters , but if you d-did n't like them , we could rent a house — whatever t-took your fancy . ’ |
| 23 | They would give them money and accept the little religious pictures or good luck messages that the shepherds handed out . |
| 24 | Whether the Bedford health authorities did not like this , I shall not know , but they would give me no help at all . |
| 25 | ‘ We are a bit thin on the ground up front but if I stuck the cleaner and laundry lady out there I know they would give me 110 per cent . ’ |
| 26 | He made himself as meek as a lamb , hoping perhaps that they would give him an extra morsel of food or some other favour . |
| 27 | Er I never actually had any part in it but I heard tales about er the rivet boy in particular , the they would er they would give him a wage equivalent to what they thought was was a was a reasonable wage for him , because of the fact that they were on piece work , he had to see that the rivets there on time . |
| 28 | And then writing back to this contact i either in New York or in Virginia or wherever it was , saying that it th they would give him the dimensions of the roof , that they could tell him exactly how many slates they 'd need to cover it . |
| 29 | I tell you , if she was out in Hollywood they would send her to one of those beauty farms , where they starve them and batter them about and knock them into shape ; then they would give her a plastic nose , or make the one she 's got more pointed , put false eyelashes on her , give her hair an expert cut , and walla ! she 'd be a sensation . |
| 30 | Exercises : students decide if statements about the passage are true or false ; in small groups , they list , discuss , and tell each other what the woman will be doing tomorrow , and what she will have done by 5.30 ; they then discuss the woman 's feelings and decide what advice they would give her . |